Sonnet

Earth! You Have Not Been Forgotten

T'was the light that split the night a crackling
As the pitter-patter rain drops did soak
And the boom that sent the hounds a cowering
The rivers; currents flowed into a choke

And man upon his pedestal did stand
To build his empire further skyward still
His weathered stilts dug deep in bedrock sand
Man made roots clasped to mankind's iron will

As though the stars shine and beckon closer
He still retires when the winds do howl
For mother nature could yet be harsher
And so in the storm he does don his cowl

Though the stars are his true destination
She that birthed him has not be forgotten